Velvet Buzzsaw Review

Can art and blood make for an good film? Let’s find out shall we?

The Scores

Interest: 5/10

Acting: 7.5/10

Storyline: 8/10

Intensity: 7/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 9/10

Nudity: 7/10

Director Score: 8/10

Musical Score: 7.5/10

Dialogue: 8/10

Logic In The Film: 8/10

[Score of the film total]

Velvet Buzzsaw is a 2019 film. The genres are horror, mystery, and thriller. The movies run time is one hour and fifty-nine minutes. The three stars of the film are Jake Gyllenhaal (Known for Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain, Prisoners, and Donnie Darko), Rene Russo (Known for Nightcrawler, The Thomas crown Affair, Ransom, and Lethal Weapon 4), and Zawe Ashton (Known for Velvet Buzzsaw, Blitz, Nocturnal Animals, and Sherlock). The Director of the film is Dan Gilroy (Known for Nightcraler, Roman J. Israel, Esq, Velvet Buzzsaw, and Two for the Money). Let’s take in in depth look shall we?

Interest: This one is hard, because while I love art, this film uses what I’d say are the most stereotypical people to appraise and talk about art ever. And honestly, I don’t have a fond liking of those people in the slightest. This being said the movie is pretty slow at first, trying to set up a story that people will care about, and background to the characters, and then the second half comes along where everyone starts dying. It is just okay, and my mind wandered quite a bit during this film.

Acting: I enjoyed the films acting. Velvet Buzzsaw’s actors are all stunning and impressive. I know that this isn’t how they are as real people, and yet my belief is grabbed and molded near perfectly into the reality the film and people have crafted. I loved to hate the characters and their snobbishness, the way art is just an elitest thing to enjoy and talk about, its just enjoyable that I don’t like anyone in this film at all actually, and get to watch such a crazy thing unfold. Weirdly I guess, I’m rooting for the bad guy or evil in the film.

Storyline: The story is interesting, the quick and dirty is paintings are haunted, people are dying, and the a literal WTF moment happens that makes you wonder about the movie. Everything goes through the paces well, and doesn’t seem to rushed, or to slow. If this movie was porridge, it’d be just right.

Intensity: The whole film was intense and fun. While not liking any of the characters, you can still gather things from people and how they act. They all are trying to get these new found paintings, and that type of work is a hectic mess, and a similar feeding frenzy of piranha. Then once a magical voodoo thing happens where paintings are killing people, it becomes much more intense, especially after the characters start piecing it together. It all works and meshes together to create something that is a intense film, although it is not the most intense film, it does its job well.

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: Actual physical fights actually don’t happen in this film, just strange oddities, verbal fights happen quite a bit, as well as snide remarks, and possibly some mental trauma happens as well. The actual fights as I said are oddities, the spirit that is killing the people don’t tie them up and do a cool death scene, but almost does this is the same sense the final destination movies do them, killing them off by strange malfunctions of things, with a hint of a super natural nudge. And the verbal lashings that are given out are about cheating, who is getting the art, and why life hasn’t panned out well, and these lead to arguments and people being hurt. And as for the mental problems, I mean finding dead people that you at least knew, if not good friends wit would cause a major mental problem, at least to me,

Nudity: For a film based around art, there is astoundingly very little nudity in the film, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, just means you have to wait for it, there is a sex scene which does have a woman's breast are shown, and before and after that scene there are many guys butts to stare at. All in all I don’t really think it helped or hurt the film. It was just kinda there. Maybe its saying that the art world is all connected in some way, but personally I feel like that would be grabbing at straws for what we are shown.

Director Score: So this is a new segment that may be here to stay. This is where I rate the Director. I think the director did pretty well with the whole film. The areas where shot are varied with varied art pieces placed to be seen, the costumes and design were done very well. Things seemed well packaged and nothing seemed too terribly out of place besides the 1990 flip phone, but it could be just the way that character is meant to be. Otherwise, I think the director did things very well and I can’t harp it for this.

Musical Score: This is also a new category that will hopefully stay for a bit. The musical score is subtle at times, and then can be much louder, and done with purpose and reason. I think the scores themselves aren’t bad either, it adds to the annoying pretentiousness vibe the film tries, and exceedingly gives off.

Dialogue: The last new category. I think the dialogue was good, nothing that seems so strange or off that you did a double take. I guess I’m not really sure what else I should place in here, they spoke, it seemed alright, and the acting parts made up for what wasn’t said.

Logic in the Film: The logic in the film (Changed from logic). I feel like most of the logic in the film made sense. The story followed what it could of the laws of physics, and everything seemed pretty good, besides one thing. One thing makes me not enjoy this film, is some high styling and profilin art critic is driving a nice car, but has a damn flip phone from 1999. That bugs me and I’m not sure why.

Did I like the film? It wasn’t bad. Do I suggest watching it? I mean if you’re looking to scratch an itch of pretentious, art, horror, or gore, or a combination of those things, this film can fill that void you need to fill. I found it not interesting on mostly a character problem (because I hate pretentious art people (and pretentious people in general)) but otherwise I couldn’t find much else wrong with the film. I give the film 75%. It is a fun film, not going to get a lot of notice as a great film that will win typical awards, but will be a fun film any night of the week.